Category: Specialist Areas

Specialist Areas

Light The Blue Youth Arts Festival

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We are very excited about our upcoming performance at The Lemon Tree on the 11th of June as part of Aberdeen Performing Arts, Light The Blue Youth Arts Festival. Some of our pupils (and staff) have been working hard alongside Aberdeen Performing Arts to create a performance which takes you on a journey through the seasons, with some surprises for the audience along the way!

The performance is free but tickets must be obtained prior to the event – please see the link below for booking details.

 https://www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/creative-learning/light-the-blue/in-performance/orchard-brae-school/?fbclid=IwAR3BBV0ezL3uxkOeAxNkH3rKHfEUSzdVEFbrmeOaLT-YmrVDY9pngsyu00g

The full programme of events can be found at:

www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/lighthteblue

 

Little Musicians in Afternoon Nursery (Howes Road)

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Our little musicians have been thoroughly enjoying their music sessions with our Music Teacher. Engaging with the songs and music through percussion instruments, streamers and bubbles.

 

Spring Art in Room 9

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Room 9 pupils appreciate our natural world.

They have observed Spring daffodils growing and produced these wonderful paintings depicting our class’s daffodils.

We have all looked at the paintings and commented on them. We all agree they are fabulous pieces of art.

A Walk Through Nature With Room 7

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Some pupils from Room 7 enjoyed a walk in the countryside today. We headed along the countryside path towards Kingswells and saw lots of exciting things. We took pictures of some of the animals and when we got back to school we used our Pixon and core vocabulary boards to talk about what we saw. We also practised our maths skills by counting aloud the number of animals. We saw 3 deer and 7 brown and white horses and far too many sheep and crows to count!!!

 

Room 16: Working Towards the John Muir Award

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In Room 16 we have been working on our John Muir Award all year. This focuses on Outdoor Education.

In order to achieve our Bronze Award, we have to do 4 days work in our chosen outdoor space.  We chose our playground, as we felt it was a bit bare and it was readily accessible to us.

Our plan was to blur the boundaries between the indoor and outdoor spaces.  Here’s what we’ve done so far:

  • Learned about the Scotsman John Muir and his work protecting natural spaces in North America.
  • Explored our playground in different seasons and from different perspectives.
  • Planted lots of bulbs, seeds and seedlings in science lessons.

 

  • Planted flowers.
  • Experimented with flowers in science lessons

 

  • Used natural and recycled materials in craft projects.

 

  • Been for lots of walks in the local community, to the shops, duck pond, parks and outdoor fitness area.
  • Fed the birds (ducks, robins and sparrows) at the local duck pond.
  • Decorated milk bottle plant pots for house plants in our classroom, which the pupils look after.

  • Made a sound sculpture with pots and pans in the playground, for pupils to play with.
  • Hung up a large thermometer in the playground for everyone to use.

But we are not quite finished yet.  We are in the process of making some more interactive and noisy sculptures for the playground.

We would like everyone to be able to enjoy using the outdoor spaces in school more, so here’s hoping for some dry weather!

Planting Time in our Afternoon Nursery at Howes Road

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It’s that time of year again to look out the gardening gloves, trowels and spades and to start growing. Firstly we examined our sunflower seeds, then we filled our little containers with compost, poked our little seeds under the soil and finished off by watering them. Now it’s time to tend our little seeds and watch them grow.

Football Tournament

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Last week some of our Secondary pupils attended a Football Tournament at Garioch Sports Centre. Once again we enjoyed the opportunity to socialise with young people from other schools and to compete against them in friendly competitions.

Improving the School Grounds with Howes Hoose

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In Howes Hoose, our work with Daniel from Aberdeen City Council Parks Department has continued. As part of our SQA Personal Achievement Award we are working on a Community Activity. With support and guidance from Daniel, we are working to develop our school garden and grounds. We’ve been extremely busy and have planted 3600 seeds! We have planted peas, beans, pumpkins, radishes and cornflowers. We look forward to seeing them brighten things up and tasting our wares when they are ready!

 

We Are Keeping Healthy In Room 11

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The children in Room 11 have been participating in a range of fun activities and learning how to keep healthy. They have been having fun at swimming, cooking and taking part in PE lessons. Some of them have been showing how competitive they are when playing curling.

All of them have been showing their responses to different smells and some of them have been very clear of what they like (mint, onion).

They have been having great fun exploring how their bodies work and what they can do when they really want and try.

Earth Day in Room 6

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Monday the 22nd of April was Earth Day.  Class 6 took part in a scavenger hunt to see how many different items we could find when we were out in the community, relating to caring for the environment.  We also managed to find a few in school too!